Stars: Heather Angel, Roger Pryor, Ford Sterling Director: William Nigh Writers: Jack Natteford (story), Claire Church (story) When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father’s paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in …
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Stars: Madge Evans, John Boles and Bruce Cabot Director: James Whale Writers: Harold Buckley (story and screenplay) During a violent storm, an airplane bound for China crash-lands on an uncharted South Sea island. All of the passengers, including a nurse, a fugitive criminal, a blonde strumpet, a crooked former senator, a “radical” heiress, a munitions …
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Stars: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, and Jackie Gleason Director: Robert Florey Writers: Anthony Coldeway (screenplay), Dorothy Mackaye (play) An actress gets mixed up with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before she’s sent to prison. For more THRILLING, CRIME MYSTERIES checkout the FILM NOIR playlist exclusively at PizzaFlix: …
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Stars: George Houston, Ruth Coleman, Douglas Walton Director: Charles Lamont Writer: Bennett Cohen (screenplay) Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a pricelessource of pearls in the South Pacific. But when an associate puts the whole operation in jeopardy, an unscrupulous rival decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim’s claim! source
Edna Grover (Vincent) convinces her older husband Sam (Ford) to fake his own death so they can collect on the life insurance. He hides in another city under an assumed name while she identifies a burned body found after a hotel fire as her husband. Edna collects the money but she has been having an …
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The film begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Alaska at the time was weakly defended. Canada had already built the northwest staging route; a series of airfields spread across northwestern Canada. The decision is made to build a highway to Alaska. The workers are divided into three starting camps, Fort Nelson BC., Skagway Alaska, …
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Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson Director: Dudley Murphy Writers: Eugene O’Neill (play), DuBose Heyward (screenplay) Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island. source
Stars: Steffi Duna, Dennis Morgan, Douglas Walton Director: Victor Halperin Writers: Richard Carroll (story), Howard Higgin (dialogue) In a Newfoundland whaling village, a love triangle develops among two brothers and a woman. source
Stars: Frank McCormick, Loretta Young, Ralph Forbes Director: Herbert Brenon Writers: Percival Christopher Wren An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend. source